Background: Primary care providers play an important role in encouraging and counseling
pregnant and postpartum women to successfully breastfeed. Objective: One objective of this …

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine associations between missed nursing
care and nurse staffing during labor and birth, and exclusive breast milk feeding at hospital …

Objective: The aim of this study is to examine in-hospital exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) and
its association with sociodemographic factors, medical factors, breastfeeding intentions, and …

Background: Despite strides made by the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative to improve and
normalize breastfeeding, considerable racial inequality persists in breastfeeding rates. Few …

This qualitative study analyzes mothers' reports of breastfeeding care experiences from
pregnancy through infancy. Most research on medical support for breastfeeding examines a …

Background: Experiences during the birth hospitalization affect breastfeeding outcomes. In
the United States, hospital policies and practices supportive of breastfeeding are routinely …

Background Hospitals that provide maternity care can play an important role in providing or
directing mothers to postdischarge breastfeeding support, which improves breastfeeding …

Study objectives:(1) describe the existing supportive hospital breastfeeding practices in a
major urban region and (2) determine if supportive hospital breastfeeding practices are …

Improving breastfeeding practices is key to reducing child mortality globally. Sub-optimal
exclusive breastfeeding rates may be associated with inadequate hospital-based …

Objective Identify practices associated with breastfeeding maintenance, examine
breastfeeding-related hospital practices by hospital designation level (Baby Friendly vs. Gift …